'(1)
Yet he never explains what the intellectual
transitions would be like in case we had them.
He only defines them negatively -- they are
not spatial, temporal, predicative, or causal;
or qualitatively or otherwise serial; or in any
way relational as we naively trace relations,
for relations _separate_ terms, and need themselves
to be hooked on _ad_infinitum_. The nearest
approach he makes to describing a truly
intellectual transition is where he speaks of
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1 Op. cit., pp. 568, 569.
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A and B as being 'united, each from its own
nature, in a whole which is the nature of both
alike.'(1) But this (which, _pace_ Mr. Bradley,
seems exquisitely analogous to 'taking' a congeries
in a 'lump,' if not to 'swamping') suggests
nothing but that _conflux_ which pure
experience so abundantly offers, as when
'space,' 'white' and 'sweet' are confluent in
a 'lump of sugar,' or kinesthetic, dermal, and
optical sensations confluent in 'my hand.'(2)
All that I can verify in the transitions which
Mr. Bradley's intellect desiderates as its _proprius_
_motus_ is a reminiscence of these and
other sensible conjunctions (especially space-
conjunctions), but a reminiscence so vague
that its originals are not recognized.
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